Earlier this week, I had a stressful day at work.  I don’t think that my job is stressful on its own, but I tend to know how to push my own hot buttons.  It’s not that I’m a perfectionist; my condo is far too messy for that to be true.  But, when I know that I could have done better on something… I tend to take a guilt trip to the moon and back.

As I drove home from my hectic day, country music blaring from my speakers, I felt the need to turn on something that would get me out of the funk of not being as good as I think.  Naturally, my mind went to its immediate ego comfort food: rap music.

i tried to find pictures of me doing silly “gang signs” but they were too awkward

Someone once told me that they couldn’t get into rap because they felt like they didn’t fit the stereo typical listener.  Which… I get.  I’m your 5’2″ blond hair, blue-eyed, cowboy-boot-wearing rap music fan.  Going against the grain over here.

But, there is *something* about rap music that is hard to replicate in other genres.

Like when I’m feeling at a low point and I need a reminder that faced against all odds, I can still succeed…

“So here I go it’s my shot.  Feet fail me not, this may be the only opportunity that I got.” ~Eminem

Or, when I hit writer’s block and I move around a gazillion different words until a sentence finally makes sense…

“I switched up the flow, but I’m still right.”  - Nicki Minaj

Then, when I go to crossfit and I look at a 100# bar… can I get that up in the air?

“Do it big and let the small fall under that.”  - Lil’ Wayne

Yep, got it.  Thanks Lil’ Wayne.  And, of course, when I was 25, I walked around shouting out Drake lyrics because it was so relevant to my life…

“Twenty five sitting on 25 mill.” ~Drake

Oh wait, no… that didn’t happen…

*What music gets you out of a funk?